Layer Basics

One of the most popular and powerful features of Paint Shop Pro is layers. You’ll probably find that you use layers in the majority of your Paint Shop Pro projects. And if you’re a graphic artist whose work involves a lot of compositing, nearly all of your image editing will involve layering.

Layers let you manipulate different components of your image independently. This can enable you to, for example, apply an effect or a filter to only part of your image, reposition or rotate a figure in the image without affecting the background, or blend one part of your image into another.